My father peddles opium, my mother's on the dole
My sister used to walk the streets but now she's on parole
My brother runs a restaurant with bedrooms in the rear
But they don't even speak to me, 'cause I'm an Engineer

storm topology to handle “dating website”-like workloads@FractalizeR - do some sort of calculation that results in a match % - 0 to 100 double value of something. this match value will be stored in some sort of key value store where the key is a combination of 2 profile IDs or something

Was there ever a serious push for partial classes in java@user61852 - imagine youre writing a framework that generates classes, and you want to allow "manual" overrides of specific methods, instead of simply switching generation off for a whole class. partial classes would be perfect for this

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Was there ever a serious push for partial classes in java@ratchetfreak - this question came about because im writing an in-house code-generation framework (not ui-related) and this feature could indeed improve the quality of my life right now :-) doing the same thing with inheritence is not always possible, and even when possible creates all sorts of nasty corner cases since outside code can become aware of the inheritence hierarchy